WilliamCarlosWilliams

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BIOGRAPHY
  • Born in Rutherford, New Jersey in the year 1883
  • Died in the year 1963
  • Began to write in high school
  • Attended high school at Horace Mann High School
  • Made the decision in high school to become a writer and a doctor
  • Received M.D. from University Of Pennsylvania
  • Was a practicing doctor
FAMOUS POEMS
  • This is just to say
  • The red wheelbarrow
  • Spring and all
  • The Dance
  • Poem (as the cat)
INFLUENCES
  • Dadism
  • Cubism
HONORS
  • National book award, 1950
  • Pulitzer Prize, 1963
STYLE
  • Imagist
  • uses vivid imagery and strong, simple language
  • free verse
  • line over sentence
  • wishes to speak like an American within an American context of
small cities, immigrants, and workers
  • reflect rhythm of everyday speech
  • drew subject matter from ordinary surroundings
  • presented scenes of ordinary life without comment